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  • As already intimated, I have not in a single instance excised any _parts_ of poems: to do so would have been, I conceive, no less wrongful towards the illustrious American than repugnant, and indeed unendurable, to myself, who aspire to no Bowdlerian honours.

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

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